The 11th Hour

11th hour is a sequel to a moderately good game called 7th guest. However this sequel fails to captivate its audience from the get go with a huge amount of bugs, visual problems and worst of all a bad plot and even worse acting. In a game that relies so much on acting and plot to make it believable, that means just death of the title. When it came out the visual style was OK but age has done its trick and unlike in some other games, 11th hour just looks bad. There are games which are older than this and some of them are even similar FMV games. Puzzles are boring remakes of the first game and there's many faults in basic design of this game. It's almost like the creators wanted to improve the previous design but failed ending up with less than the original title. However for the fairness of the game I have to write that it isn't nearly as awful piece of junk as Phantasmagoria. If you played the both Phantasmagorias through and liked them then 11th guest is your thing.

I would be lying if I told you this game aged well. It did not, and being a game based on Full Motion Video and the at the time relatively new CD-ROM technology, this should surprise absolutely no one. But if you can get past that, there is still a lot of charm and challenge to be had here. If you like puzzles and have a taste for the macabre, there is absolutely no good reason not to check this game out, at least if you can get your hands on the DOS version. Since the windows one is so much easier to get these days, I wish I could say the same about it. Sadly, bugs make that a lot tougher to argue.

This is probably one of my fav games of all time. Sure the movie is fmv and old school, but the game is challenging and is awesome. Can't wait for T7G 3 is up and going, their kickstarter (even if it didn't work out), inspired me to dig up these games and play again.

11th Hour, much like 7th Guest, truly requires some patience, and is often times, best played with friends - because some of the puzzles can truly be difficult to understand (although these days with walk thrus and google, maybe not like how it used to be). It's an enjoyable game, like I said, with more people sitting around the computer, trying to figure out how some of the puzzles and riddles are answered. The story is very loose as it does primarily center around the puzzles & riddles. It's like Myst meets the most difficult adventure game ever!

Play as a game in its context and if english is your L1, most of the puzzles are word games and the majority of them are hard. The movie is also in english WITHOUT subtitles. The installation of the game its a headache if errors you and the game is crushing all the time (my experience)